Bright Poems for Dark Days An Anthology for Hope

This beautiful book presents poems for hopefulness and happiness, with bright, uplifting illustrations from rising star Carolyn Gavin. This book of joyous and uplifting verse is a welcome beacon of hope and happiness in difficult and challenging times, collected together with beautiful illustrations and context for each poem. We all have days when we find ourselves in need of some positivity. In difficult times, the words of others can lift us up. Bright, joyful art to inspire hopefulness is combined with carefully curated poems, chosen to lift the spirits through the healing power of words.  The book is divided into eight sections on the themes of hope, resilience & courage, joy, nature & escape, love, tranquillity, gratitude and comfort. Featuring a diverse range of writers from Oscar Wilde to Emily Dickinson, Robert Louis Stevenson to Maya Angelou, William Blake to Warsan Shire, the selections are accompanied by explanations and illuminating context that reinforce the positive mental health message.  Combining uplifting lines of verse and joyful illustrations, this unique book provides a much-needed dose of hopefulness and happiness in turbulent times, whether as a thoughtful gift for someone in need of solace or a resource that can be turned to whenever we need to.  Featuring: Carol Ann Duffy  Percy Bysshe Shelley  Maya Angelou  Emily Dickinson  Kahlil Gibran  Claude McKay  Langston Hughes  William Wordsworth  Emanuel Carnevali  James Weldon Johnson  Anne Sexton  William Ernest Henley  Siegfried Sassoon  David Wright  Ella Wheeler Wilcox  John Greenleaf Whittier  Ada Limón  Denise Levertov  William Blake   Edna St. Vincent Millay  Oscar Wilde  Rachel Field  John Gillespie Magee Jr.  Armand Garnet Ruffo  Robert Louis Stevenson  Ursula Bethell  John Donne  Paul Laurence Dunbar  Warsan Shire  Naomi Replansky  William Butler Yeats  Toru Dutt  William Cullen Bryant  E. Pauline Johnson  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu  Alfred, Lord Tennyson   Raymond Carver  Katherine Mansfield  Issa  W.S. Merwin  John Tobias  Ross Gay  Sara Teasdale  Elizabeth Barrett Browning  William Shakespeare  Tim Bowling  Mary Oliver  Christina Rossetti

ISBN:	9780711266810
Publisher:	Frances Lincoln
Imprint:	Frances Lincoln Limited Publishers
Published date:	05 Oct 2021
DEWEY:	808.819353
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	128
Weight:	432g
Height:	157mm
Width:	205mm
Spine width:	20mm

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